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To make it easier for the seven selections for the White Jersey contest. Here are the 42 contenders sorted by age. Data sourced from procyclingstats.com Katusha, Alexander Kristoff, 05/07/1987 Europcar, Davide Malacarne, 11/07/1987 Cofidis, Yoann Bagot, 06/09/1987 Europcar, Cyril...

Taylor Phinney

Enjoyed that. Thanks Eshnar. Onwards tothe Tour?

Does Di Luca count as a standard DNF? Next time, we have a stronger punishment for people like him.

I'm a bit more cautious a lot could go wring in the next couple of days :-)

Fair Enough. Tomorrow is a difficult stage and they could be big gaps

Eshnar, I do not know if you noticed, but the jury upheld Gesink's appeal and he was credited with the same time as the winners yesterday. No sure, it make a lot of difference, but every second helps ;-)

Final Changes: Locatelli - out, Bongiorno - in Scarponi - out, Niemiec - in Uran SP Everything else remains the same. Let's hope for an exciting final few stages :-)

Yes. He is ill with a chest cold, but he is also ill in the head. No-one descends that slow without psychological problems.

Probably lose my lead today with exit of Wiggins and Hesjedal. Oops

Great stuff from Uran, loyalty only ups his value in the market place. I would not be surprised if Sky get out their checkbooks and keep the Colombians and drop others.

“I don’t know what will happen, but [Sergio] Henao and I are different than Froome. We always work for the team and we’ve never had any problems with the team,” Urán said. “We are not like Froome. I came here with the idea of helping the squad, whatever the goals may be. We shall see. We have to...

Agree, tactics today were very good. With Cataldo and Henao available, Team Sky has lots of options in the coming two weeks. Only problem is that Wiggins doesn't seem up to it on very steep slopes (same in Vuelta 11) It be interesting to see Sky tactics tomorrow on a less difficult finish.

wiggin, henao, uran, xandio, kosta, cataldo

As I understand it, after the frst team meeting Dowsett had to convince Movistar management to let take a TT bike home, so he could train on it. Rather than just his normal road bike.